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in thread Launching Internet Explorer

Defying the spirit of safety, using "start" will introduce the evil shell again: 
D:\temp>perl
my $link = '"http://perlmonks.org/" & echo Oops!';
system('start', $link);
^Z
Oops!

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Re^4: Launching Internet Explorer
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 27, 2006 at 15:16 UTC
    yuck! Thanks for the heads up! I didn't know.
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